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This exercise provides an opportunity to know your emotions and build valuable awareness.
Noticing and understanding your own emotions is a fundamental component of emotional intelligence. By practicing a bit of quiet mindfulness, you can nurture this intelligence by simply observing your current thoughts and feelings without trying to judge or change them. Research shows that mindfulness is linked to an increased clarity of feelings, greater attention to your inner world, and reduced distraction. Just as reading regularly helps build intellectual intelligence, taking a few moments to mindfully attend to your emotional states naturally fosters your emotional intelligence.
Key Takeaways & Next Steps:
Focus on Awareness, Not Regulation
The aim is not to tolerate or force your emotions to change, but simply to become familiar with them.
Choose Wisely
Because we're focusing purely on building awareness, it is highly recommended that you choose to connect with positive or neutral emotions for this exercise, rather than diving into distressing or difficult ones.
Embrace Curiosity
If checking in with your emotions is a newer practice for you, you might find it a little tricky to describe the physical characteristics of a feeling, such as its "edges" or "colours".
Meet the Coach.
Paul Gagnon, ACC ICF Certified Coach | MYcoach. Building your emotional awareness is an absolute game-changer! When you practice this meditation, I want you to remember to focus strictly on awareness, not regulation. Don't try to fix or force your feelings to change—just get familiar with them! Because we're just building awareness, I highly recommend choosing a totally positive or neutral emotion to focus on first! Treat your Emotional Awareness as an extension of our coaching—a daily habit to help you replace reactive stress with clarity and elevate your leadership presence. Smiles & Coffee, - Paul
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Emotional awareness meditation script
This guided mindfulness script walks you step-by-step through safely observing a specific emotion in your body by exploring its shape, color, and texture without any judgment. Taking just a few minutes to tune in will massively reduce your daily distractions and leave you with a perfectly quiet, focused mind!
Take some unhurried time to write about your experience.
Writing about your experience with this specific emotion will help enhance your overall familiarity with it.
Remember that increasing your emotional awareness takes time and consistent practice.
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